Imec and TSMC Announces Extension of Europractice IC Service

Published on June 4, 2010 at 5:51 AM

Imec, a world-leading nanoelectronics
research center, and TSMC, the world-leading semiconductor foundry, today announced
the extension of imec's Europractice IC service with the offering of TSMC's
40 nanometer technologies. Subsequent to the close collaboration between imec
and TSMC on advanced technology research and development, both companies will
offer TSMC's CybershuttleTM Multi-Project Wafer (MPW) platform for IC
prototyping and production services to European companies and academia.

The offering will include TSMC's 40 nanometer general purpose CMOS and
low-power CMOS technologies. With this offering European-based companies and
academia with low-volume manufacturing needs, such as universities, research
centers, start-up companies, and companies with small niche markets will get
supported access to advanced technologies from TSMC.

"Extending the partnership with imec enhances our ability to support the
growing Innovation in the European semiconductor industry, particularly of Small
and Medium Enterprises, and enables European academia and research institutes
to access TSMC's advanced technology offerings." said Maria Marced, President,
TSMC Europe.

Carl Das, Director of the Europractice IC service at imec said, "We are
very happy to extend our work together with TSMC. After offering TSMC's 40nm
technology to European fables companies as TSMC-VCA (Value Chain Aggregator)
partner, imec is excited to add the 40nm offering to its Europractice university
technology portfolio. With TSMC's 40 nanometer technology portfolio offering,
Europractice shows its continuous commitment to provide the best and most advanced
solutions to European academia and research institutes."